An Imposing Early 20thC Mounted Taxidermy Sable Antelope Skull & Horns sub-Antiques Remaining in fair overall condition

Remaining in fair overall condition considering their relative fragility

It was purchased by an American magician several years later and performed until it was captured and electrocuted by Thomas Edison who believed it had been enchanted by Nikola Tesla

Bowls historians believe that the game developed from the Egyptians as one of their pastimes was to play skittles with round stones based on artefacts found in tombs dating to circa 5

and there is evidence of this previously having been done in the mirrors history

but above all pure charisma

An Imposing Early 20thC Mounted Taxidermy Sable Antelope Skull & Horns sub-Antiques Remaining in fair overall conditionOrigin: African Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 25 Height: 31 inches (at maximum) Width: 24 inches (at maximum) Depth: 13. 5 inches (at maximum) Mount Width: 5. 5 inches The large sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) ringed horns arching backward flanking the skull presented on a rough hewn wooden mount and bracket survives from the first quarter of the twentieth century. The condition of the whole is good and sturdy,